Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ahead (Two Cities-20th Century-Fox), is a soft of dry-land equivalent of Noel Coward's famed In Which We Serve, tells with considerable force one of the real stories of modern war. The story: how a shuffling motley of unwilling conscripts, drawn from every walk of life, are transformed into proficient and brave infantrymen...
...York in Jimmy Walker's time. For the last few years, it has been no more fun to be in New York than anywhere else. The war has been partly to blame for that; but [so has] LaGuardia. . . . Jimmy Walker . . . would win in a walk, on the nostalgic vote...
...petty minutiae of the sixteenth century anyway. Shakespeare does mean something quite unacademic today, and the Dramatic Club aims to keep him alive. Theodore Spencer and Fritz Jessner have accomplished the revitalization, with a blue pencil. The Elizabethans loved the long speeches, but modern movie-trained audiences would walk out on them...
Next comes training of the paralyzed organs. By slow, patient use of a "tidal drainage" system, the paralyzed bladder and bowels are conditioned to empty themselves automatically at regular intervals. Learning to walk is more difficult. In most cases success depends mainly on 1 ) convincing the patient of the incredible fact that walking is possible, 2) exercises to strengthen' the arms and shoulders (which supply the power for swinging the legs). Finally comes training for a job that a man can do with head and hands alone...
...first to walk in Ward 108 was Private First Class Harry Sanders, 24, who was hurt at Saint-LÔ last summer when a bomb exploded 5 ft. behind him. Almost completely paralyzed from the waist down, blue-eyed Private Sanders went home to Marysville, Pa. on furlough last month, hopped proudly around the house on his braces, laid plans to return to civilian life as a radio mechanic...